Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-02-28
MURDER AND SUICIDE.
LOUIS VERHEYEN KILLS LILY
FORREST.
He Evades Capture and Cheats the
Hangman by the Aid Of
Strychnine

hurt at her residence on Jibboom street.
Officer Farren Immediately started for the
locality designated, after suggesting to
officer Leavy that it would be well to tele-
phone to the City Physician, so that there
might not be any loss of time. The in
jured woman, Adena Verhaegen alias Lily
Forrest, was found at the house of
Charles Vanina, with whom she had been
living during the previous two weeks, lying
on her right side in bed, while Vanina held
cloth against wound in her breast.
Seeing that the wound was serious. the
officer inquired of her who inflicted it and
with what weapon, but she declined to give
him any information, saying at first that
she made the wound herself Farren saw
that her left band was hurt, and found that
three of the
FINGERS WERE CUT TO THE BONE,
A knife having been drawn through her
hand. He questioned WANNA, but the lat
ter could not give any positive information,
as she had not told him, he said. He came
home a short time before and found the
door locked, but could hear voices inside.
He called for admittance and the woman
responded, That's all right" opened the
door and threw herself into his arms. A
man whom he recognized as Louis Yer
heyen was in the house at the time, but
Immediately took his departure without
saying anything. Officer Farren learned
that Verheyen had gone to the river, near
by, and washed his hands, then walked to-
ward the old mouth of the American river,
where the dredger was lying last fall, and
got Chinaman to set him across the
stream in boat That was the last seen
of him. Returning to the house. Farren
insisted upon the unfortunate woman's
telling him the particulars of the assault
upon her. but she refused, saying, iii tell
you something by and by" Subsequently
she was prevailed upon to tell where the
weapon was with which the wound had
been inflicted, and the officer found it to be
LARGE CARVING KNIFE.
He then urged her to tell him more, but
she declined, except that in course of time
she admitted that it was Verheyen who
stabbed her. The City Physician had
meanwhile arrived, and also the Chief OF
Police, City Attorney, Clerk of the Police
Court and others The doctor informed
her that the wound was almost surely NOR
tai, and urged the making of an ante
norton statement, but she could not be
persuaded that she was dangerously hurt.
To City Attorney Hart she said realize
my condition, but | am not going to die if
the doctor treats me right. | am conscious,
and know what am saying" The doctor
again endeavored to impress upon her the
critical condition she was in, but she would
not believe it. She stated, however, that
Verheyen called at the house that morn
ing, and in course of conversation told her
he was going to leave town and asked her to
KISS HIM GOOD BY.
She did so, and he left In the afternoon,
about 5 o'clock. he returned as she was
cooking supper, and renewed their CONVEX
sation. He asked her to kiss him again.
but she refused. He endeavored to compel
her, but she resisted. Then he picked up
knife from the table and tried to stab me
near the heart. l grabbed the knife. and
he pulled it through my closed hand, cut
ting my fingers. Then be struck at me
again and the knife cut me. When he cut
me he said / made him miserable"
Though suffering great pain, she bore it he
roically. The doctor put her under the in
f1uence of anesthetics, and had her car
ried on stretcher to the police station.
There the case was carefully considered by
Drs. Parkinson, Huntington and Briggs,
and it was decided that the
KNIFE HAD PENETRATED HER STOMACH,
And that the only hope for her recovery
lay in an operation. Accordingly an in
cision was made sufficiently large to enable
the surgeons to reach the wound in the
stomach, and it was sewed up, the blood
removed from the cavity, ETC., the whole
operation being very satisfactorily per-
formed. She rested easily during the
| night, but about $50 in the morning told
officer Farren she wanted a drink of water.
He reminded her that the surgeons had
ordered that she be prevented from drink
ing. She continued to urge that drink |
be given her, and said if it was not she
would get up and help herself as soon as
she was left alone. The officer reasoned
with her, and she was persuaded to quench |
her thirst with small pieces of ice. About !
s o'clock there was such change in her |
appearance that the physicians were sum-
moned, and when they came they pro-
nounced her to be dying.
DEATH ENsUED ABOUT S:45.
The Coroner was notified and removed the |
body to the morgue. From the time the |
first information of the cutting was re-
ceived, the police department made vigor- |
GUS search for Verheyen in every direction. |
The place where he landed from the China
mans boat is almost if not quite an island
at this time of the year. and it was be- |
lieved if he did not succeed in getting q |
boat. he would be unable to leave it. Ac-
cordingly officers were engaged all night in |
patroling it, keeping guard near the river
especially, to see that he did not leave |
Dispatches were sent in all directions to |
head him off in case he should manage to |
escape from the island. Officer Farrell went |
in a buggy almost to Woodland, and re-
turned about 4 p. NJ. yesterday, after |
rough trip over muddy roads. The Chief |
and officer Sullivan went as far as Rose
ville and hunted many suspicious
characters, getting home at $50 P. NJ
yesterday. About noon word was re-
ceived that man answering his de-
scription had been seen near Freeport,
where he appeared at o'clock Saturday |
evening at the ranch of Mr.. Coleman, and |
was given permission to stay all night. He |
excused himself for being tramping about |
in that manner by saying that
HIS WIFE HAD DRIVEN HIM OUT
1t was believed that this man might very |
possibly be the fugitive murderer, and Off |
GERS went to get horses to follow up the |
clue. few minutes later young man |
arrived at the police Office and stated that |
Mir. Pearson, proprietor of the ranch upon |
which Verheye2 was last seen, had called |
across the river that he had struck the trail |
Officer Frank Rider Immediately went over |
10 investigate, and was shown the tracks of |
a man leading from the water edge. where |
he had left boat, inland. They had been |
seen by other searching parties, but had J
not been followed far enough. Rider fol- !
lowed them eastward short distance, |
when they turned and went out toward the |
water, and a few yards from the bank en-
tered clump of brush. Following, the |
officer quickly came to little open place,
where
THE BODY OF MAN
Was found lying with his face upon the |
ground, which was trodden and broken up
near the corpse, indicating that death had |
been accompanied by terrific suffering and |
struggles. Satisfying himself that the de- |
ceased was Verheyen, the officer returned |
to town and notified the Coroner, who took |
charge of the remains Later in the after
noon post-mortem examinations were made |
of the murderer and his victim. In the |
case OF the woman, it was found that the |
knife passed entirely through the stomach,
making two openings. The upper one,
which the doctors sewed up at the station
house, was well closed, and she would have |
had pretty good chance of recovery, con-
sidering the circumstances, if it had been
the only injury; but the lower cut proved
fatal There were no marks of violence on
Yerheyen's body, and the surgeons operat-
ing considered that he died from the eff
FEC Of
DOSE OF sTgYcHNINE,